Sylvia Ratnasamy (born 1976) is a Belgian-Indian

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. She is best known as one of the inventors of the

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(DHT). Her doctoral dissertation proposed the content-addressable networks, one of the original DHTs, and she received the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 2014 for this work. She is currently a professor at the

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Life and career

Ratnasamy received her Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Pune in 1997. She began doctoral work at

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advised by

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during which time she worked at the

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. She graduated from UC Berkeley with her doctoral degree in 2002. For her doctoral thesis, she designed and implemented what would eventually become known as one of the four original Distributed Hash Tables, the Content addressable network (CAN). Ratnasamy was a lead researcher at Intel Labs until 2011, when she began as an assistant professor at UC Berkeley. In recent years, Ratnasamy has focused her research on programmable networks including the RouteBricks software router and pioneering work in Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). In 2016, she co-founded Nefeli Networks to commercialize NFV technologies.

Personal

Her father is noted chemist Paul Ratnasamy.

Awards

* Grace Murray Hopper Award * Sloan Fellowship * ACM SIGCOMM Test-of-Time Award (2011) * ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star Award (2017)

References

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